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The 152 students who participated in the present study were divided into four classes; grade eleven of Natural Science I and grade eleven of Natural
Science II, grade eleven of Social Science I, and grade ten of X1. In this study, grade eleven of Natural Science I and grade eleven of Science II were taught by
Teacher B, while grade eleven of Social Science I, and grade ten of X1 were taught by Teacher B. At the time of conducting this study those students were at
the second semester of each grade. Generally, all the students participated in the present study never followed English course outside their schooling time. They
got English lesson just whenever they went to school.
3.4 Data Collection Techniques
There were two main techniques used to collect data. They were classroom observation and questionnaire. The following elaboration will present how those
techniques applied to get the intended data.
3.4.1 Classroom Observation
Classroom observation is the main technique of collecting data for this study. It is intended to gain the data about the types of questions as well as the
strategy used by teachers and also to gain the data about the students’ responses in the classroom on teachers’ questions. Three observation sessions were conducted
for each teacher for a month. In this case, researcher acted as a non participant observer. The researcher used an audiotape to record what actually happened in
the classroom concerning the teacher’s questions and the students’ responses and made field notes to gain unrecorded data.
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The first session of observation was carried out in grade eleven of Natural Science I with the activity of listening skill. At the time of observation, the teacher
read the material for three times, while listening students were asked to fill in the chart of the missing information stated in the text read by the teacher. All
segments of the dialogue in the classroom were recorded and transcribed. The second session of observation was conducted in grade eleven of
Natural Science II with the material of “expressions of plan” taken from reading text. Here the students were asked to perform dialogue containing the material in
pair in front of class. Data on teacher questioning were taken before and after the pairing-dialogue performed.
The third observation was in eleven of Natural Science II with the activity of reading comprehension. Here the activity was set into group discussion. The
discussion was focused to answer the questions relating to the material of reading text. At the end of discussion, each group was asked to report the answers of
questions to class. Data on teacher questioning were gained from the report session of the discussion.
The fourth, fifth, and sixth observations were conducted in Teacher B’s class. In the fourth observation, which was conducted in grade eleven of Social
Science I, the activity was reading comprehension. Before doing that activity, however, the students were asked to perform a dialogue which was given at the
previous meeting. The dialogue was done to introduce the material of the reading comprehension activity. The material of reading comprehension was narrative text
“The Ants and the Grasshopper”. For this activity the students were grouped into
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nine groups of five or four students each. The fifth observation was in eleven of Social Science I. At the time of observation, students were taught speaking skill
using storytelling technique. The last observation, the sixth, was done in grade ten of X1. The class was reading comprehension with the material of “pollution”.
Here the teacher asked students to work individually to answer the questions based on the reading text given.
After the three sessions of each teacher activities in teaching and learning process were recorded, researcher then transcribed the recorded data, made
categorization, and analyzed all the collected data.
3.4.2 Questionnaire
